Human tragedy. With a schmear?

[captainsblog]

We were talking last night about the horrors in Iran, but at least found a bright side in how much harder it is in 2009 for authoriatarians to stifle dissent, compared to the Soviets in Hungary in '56 or even the Chinese in '89. You can still roll the tanks, but you can't stop the signal.

I know that Eleanor wanted to blog about this, because she wrote "Tiananmen Square" on a note to remind herself about it.

By the time I fed the aminals this morning, though, that note had transmogrified itself, as most scraps of paper tend to around here, into a grocery list, which now read:

Tiananmen Square
Bagels

Naturally, I immediately started work on the ad campaign:

"An hour later, you'll be hungry for tyranny again!"

"The hole in the middle is for the barrel of the gun"!"

"Featuring grilled asian chicken on an asagio bagel with lettuce, tomato and our special Chairman Mayo!"

Plus, we'll have the picture on the wall from the first day of business, along with the framed DBA certificate and the fake million-dollar-bill (which is probably worth about $1.00 USD at the rate our debt is piling up):





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I suppose I can get the bagels before Eleanor comes home. The AT&T store is in the same strip mall, after all:P

Now THAT signal, you can stop.

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Dear Showtime and/or TWC:

Okay, you suckered me into your new show, and since it's getting to be Dexter Season anyway, I'm ready to plunge. D'ya think you could make it FECKIN HARDER for me to order?  The entire Time Warner webpage seems designed to sign me up for phone service, and sho.com just wants to show me pictures of mutilated bodies.  (They must know their audience, huh.)

No love until tomorrow, when I'll go over to the TWC office and do it with an English-speaking human being,

Me